Add Looker Studio content to your Google Slides presentation using Gemini assistance (Preview)

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Use Gemini in Looker to help you generate Google Slides presentations from your Looker Studio reports.

Looker Studio inserts the report charts as images, generates a textual summary of each chart, and inserts the summaries as text elements.

Gemini in Looker doesn't use your prompts or its responses as data to train its model. For more information, see How Gemini in Google Cloud uses your data.

As an early-stage technology, Gemini in Looker can generate output that seems plausible but that is factually incorrect. We recommend that you validate all output from Gemini before you use it. For more information, see Gemini in Google Cloud and responsible AI.

In this article:

• Before you begin
• Generate a Slides presentation from all visualizations in a Looker Studio report
• Generate a Slides presentation from selected visualizations in a Looker Studio report
• Add Looker Studio content to a Slides presentation
• Update Looker Studio data in a Slides presentation
• Troubleshooting and limitations
• Provide feedback

Before you begin

To use this Gemini in Looker feature, you need to fulfill the following requirements:

• You must be a user under a Looker Studio Pro subscription. Looker Studio Pro licenses are available at no cost to Looker users.
• You must be a viewer or an editor of the Looker Studio report that you want to generate Slides from.
• If you are a viewer of the Looker Studio report, the Disable viewers from generating Slides with Gemini in Looker sharing option must not be selected.
• Gemini in Looker must be enabled for your Looker Studio project.
• If you want to add Looker Studio content to an existing Slides presentation, you must install the Looker Studio add-on for Google Workspace.
  • This add-on will only work if you are a Looker Studio Pro user and if Gemini in Looker is enabled for your Looker Studio project.
• You must be an editor of the Google Slides presentation that you want to import content into.

Generate a Slides presentation from all visualizations in a Looker Studio report

To create a Slides presentation that includes all the visualizations in a Looker Studio report, follow these steps:

1. Open a Looker Studio report in either view or edit mode.
2. Select the Gemini panel in the panel manager.
3. Select Generate Slides.
4. Select All visualizations.
5. Looker Studio generates a Slides presentation and saves it to your Drive. The presentation contains the following slides:
   • A title slide with the title of the Looker Studio report, your name, the date that the presentation was generated, and a link to the Looker Studio report
   • One slide for every chart including the chart title, if available, and a textual summary of the chart
   • A closing slide

After you generate a presentation using this method, you won't be able to edit it in Looker Studio. To view or edit the presentation, click the link in the Gemini panel. To finish, click Done or close the Gemini panel.

Generate a Slides presentation from selected visualizations in a Looker Studio report

To create a Slides presentation that includes a subset of visualizations from a Looker Studio report, follow these steps:

1. Open a Looker Studio report in either view or edit mode.
2. Select the Gemini panel in the panel manager.
3. Select Generate Slides.
4. Select Let me choose.
5. Click the component(s) that you want to add to the presentation.
   • To select multiple components, either Shift-click each component, or click and drag a selection area over the canvas.
   • Charts, titles, and filters are all separate components. You may want to add each of them to the slide. However, Gemini in Looker only generates text summaries for visualizations.
6. Select whether to add this set of components to a new slide or to the current slide.
7. Click Done in the top banner.
8. Looker Studio adds the selected component(s) to the Gemini panel.
   • To disable the textual summary for a visualization, click the Summary on icon on the slide.
   • To remove a visualization from the Gemini panel, click the Delete icon on the slide.
9. To add more components, repeat steps 5-8.
   Looker Studio deletes slide previews after 24 hours, or if you close the Gemini panel. Make sure to finish generating a presentation in order to save your work.
10. Once you're finished adding components, select Generate Slides in the Gemini panel.
11. Looker Studio generates a Slides presentation and saves it to your Drive. The presentation contains the following slides:
    • A title slide with the title of the Looker Studio report, your name, the date that the presentation was generated, and a link to the Looker Studio report
    • The slides that you created in steps 5-10
    • A closing slide

After you generate a presentation using this method, you won't be able to further edit it in Looker Studio. To view or edit the presentation, click the link in the Gemini panel. To finish, click Done or close the Gemini panel.

Add Looker Studio content to a Slides presentation

To add Looker Studio content to an existing Slides presentation, follow these steps:

1. Install the Looker Studio add-on for Google Workspace.
   • This add-on will only work if you are a Looker Studio Pro user and if Gemini in Looker is enabled for your Looker Studio project.
2. In a Google Slides presentation, click the Looker Studio icon on the right-hand toolbar to open the Looker Studio panel.
   You will only see the Looker Studio icon if you have been provided the Looker Studio add-on link as part of the preview group.
3. Click Import. Looker Studio opens in a new browser tab.
4. In Looker Studio, select a report to import visualizations from.
5. Click the component(s) that you want to add to the presentation.
   • To select multiple components, either Shift-click each component, or click and drag a selection area over the canvas.
   • Charts, titles, and filters are all separate components. You may want to add each of them to the slide. However, Gemini in Looker only generates text summaries for visualizations.
6. Click Done. Looker Studio adds the selected component(s) to the Gemini panel.
   • To disable the textual summary for a visualization, click the Summary on icon on the slide.
   • To remove a visualization from the Gemini panel, click the Delete icon on the slide.
7. To add more components, repeat steps 4-5.
8. To add all the previewed slides to your presentation, click Add to Slides. The Looker Studio browser tab is closed, and you will be returned to the Google Slides browser tab. The components that you selected will appear in the Looker Studio panel.
9. To add a slide preview to your presentation, click Insert under the slide preview.
   Looker Studio deletes slide previews after 24 hours, or if you close the Gemini panel. Make sure to finish generating a presentation in order to save your work.
10. Looker Studio inserts the components into your presentation as images. Looker Studio then generates a text summary of each visualization and inserts the summaries into your presentation.

When you're finished adding components, click Done in the Looker Studio panel.

Update Looker Studio data in a Slides presentation

To update Looker Studio data in an existing Slides presentation, follow these steps:

1. In a Google Slides presentation, click the Looker Studio icon on the right-hand toolbar to open the Looker Studio panel.
2. Select the components that you want to update data for.
3. Click the Update icon. Looker Studio will refresh each of the selected components with updated data.

When you're finished, close the Looker Studio panel.

Troubleshooting and limitations

The following limitations apply when adding Looker Studio content to Google Slides presentations:

• Summaries will not be generated for non-visualization report components such as filters, controls, or text boxes.
• Summaries will not be generated for visualizations with less than three data rows, such as single-value visualizations.
• Summaries will not be generated for visualizations based on blends.
• Slides generation may time out if the Looker Studio report has more than 75 visualizations.

Provide feedback

After creating a presentation, you can either upvote or downvote the generated results. If you downvote the results, Looker Studio will prompt you for a category for your feedback. You can then opt to provide more detailed feedback, capture a screenshot, and collect the generated chart summary data.

You can also email your feedback.